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Music for Media & Events
Briefing, rights and live-performance planning for films, ceremonies and projects where music must answer to a larger timeline.
- 3guides on this hub
- 5key terms
Music for a film or event is never only a file. It has a function, a timing relationship, practical constraints and often a rights record. These guides make those dependencies visible before they become last-minute problems.
- Brief the functionDescribe what music must do before choosing a track or piece.
- Plan for timing driftLive events and picture changes need ranges and fallback decisions.
- Keep rights evidenceA license is useful only if the production can find and understand it later.
Start from the situation
What's in front of you
Each entry resolves to a page that already exists — a guide or a calculator, never a placeholder.
Musical moments, timing ranges, cue ownership and the practical conditions to agree in advance.
Ceremony plan →A film is approaching edit lock with an uncleared track.Work through work, recording, media, territory and term — and keep the evidence findable.
Clearance guide →The finished music has to reach the production intact.A handoff record with prints, stems and the notes that keep the session usable without you.
Handoff guide →You need the musician, not another guide.Live viola for ceremonies and events — planned exactly the way the guide describes, played by a real violist.
Work with us →Published guides
Start with a real decision
Every guide below is published, source-labelled and written around a concrete decision. Unfinished ideas stay out of the article list.
- Which musical moments does the ceremony actually need?
Planning live viola for a wedding ceremony
Define musical moments, flexible timings, cues and practical conditions.
- What evidence must exist before the film ships?
Music clearance for a small film before edit lock
Identify the work, recording, media, territory, term and evidence before delivery.
- What does the production need to keep working without you?
An Ableton project handoff another computer can open
Package the source, prints and notes that a collaborator needs.
Workbench: tools and terms for this topic
Terms this hub leans on
- Sync licence
- Permission to synchronise a composition with moving images — separate from the recording’s rights.
- Master rights
- The rights in a specific recording, distinct from the composition. Both are usually needed.
- Stem
- A submix delivered separately, so the production can rebalance without a remix.
- Underscore
- A version mixed to sit beneath dialogue, usually with the melodic lead reduced.
- LUFS
- Loudness Units relative to Full Scale — how delivery specifications describe programme loudness.
Editorial boundary. These pages distinguish documented guidance from first-hand testing. When Auspicious Music has not run a product or recorded an example, it says so instead of manufacturing evidence.